Oh my Dave! Those are some real beauties!!!
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Thanks John!
If it wasn't for the hairline fracture in the dial of the Vanguard, it's price would have been way out of my range!
This one cost me about $650. (A wind indicator shoots the price through the roof.)
Here are two other favorites:
1921 Hamilton 992 21j
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1918 Hamilton 972 17j
I was looking for my ideal of what a "railroad watch" should look like. This is the one I got. No fancy gold or machine turning, just a heavy duty, nickel, working man's watch! This is what the engineer would be wearing in the locomotive, the conductors wore the showier stuff.
Photo courtesy of: Chronified International - Buffalo, NY. (He sold me this watch and is a better photographer than I am.)
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There was a commission which dictated what watches had to be purchased by the critical folks on the railroad. Folks like engineers, conductors, switchmen, stationmasters couldn't just buy any watch. It had to be on the list and it had to have certain features which increased as the years went by. Things like lever set and 17 jewels + basic clear legible dials and cases and built in adjustments to compensate for temperature variations and positional variations and more.
The last list was in the 1970s and by then there were quartz based watches on it and Accutrons. I have it somewhere in the house.
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Always ready to go. Bought it at a gun show 28 years ago off a guy named Angelo. Looks to be original band with pins. Numbers date it to 1966. Has worked perfectly for me without issue. Now that I have retired, there is more opportunity to enjoy it.
One of the rules was that the railroad worker was not allowed to adjust the time on his watch.
Watches were periodically inspected to see whether they were running fast or slow.
The regulator was adjusted so that the watch would keep time accurately (to the second,) the watch was set to the correct time (according to the railroad's master clock,) and the watch was marked by the watch inspector on the inside of the back of the watch case.
While on the job, the person using the watch had to keep the inspection certificate for his watch on his person at all times.
I had one just like that, an Oyster Perpetual with a date indicator.
I sold it to my brother in law for a rediculously low price
Hasn’t been any action here in a while. Here are my two favourites, a Rolex datejust 36 I recently purchased and a vintage tank mechanical Cartier. I have small wrists and favour smaller watches.
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I like the Cartier
Cartier Tank is a classic and an icon.
As SRP Member Donut (who has a spectacular collection) so eloquently stated on this forum, "Straight razors - the Gateway Drug to Watches."
The Sapphire Crown on the Cartier is always worth a separate shot Badgister, do take one for us :-)
The Cartier is a Must Tank, so synthetic crown. Still pretty.
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On a side not, I just received my vintage Omega Genève from my watchmaker this morning. it looks brand new now. It belonged to my father-in-law, so it’s nice to have it back in service.
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I have a Zenith Pocket Watch which has a sapphire crown too. It was a popular feature on better watches in that time period.
I only have this one pocket watch I picked up awhile back and the main appeal was it was made in South Bend In and that’s where I call home and will be going back once I retire
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Usually when you get an older watch like that they need to be overhauled which means being dismantled, cleaned and oiled. Often times a tad amount of oil on the escapement will get it running again. Most modern watches have no exposed pivots. They are sealed within the jewels so the cap jewel has to be removed and the oil goes there.
What type oil did you use? They have synthetic oil specific to watches. Using the wrong kind can damage a watch in the long term.
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Casio g shock, daily wear, been through A LOT.
Auto calendar, date, day of the week, summer time / winter time.
Accurate, radio controlled, synchronizes time every day.
Practical and durable. Almost barbaric compared to the many others in here. hehe.
yep, that's the good stuff. 9010/2.
My watches are nothing super special, but I love Bulova, and have enough that I can choose a watch to go with whatever I'm wearing that day.
Bulova has been doing some neat things lately with redo's of some of their iconic watches. They have their digital and the "Devil Diver" and the military. If you check out Eboy you can find their Accuswiss which were discontinued years ago but they are watches meant to sell for a grand and can be found for $300.
Thanks, and this is perfect, I was going to message you Big,I know your the resident watch expert, and I wanted to give you a head start, I have two watches that were my father's, his favorites as he had two of them, have you ever heard of Paul Buret? They are wind-up alarm watches, and I haven't been able to find anything about them. I'll give you a day or two before I post the pictures. Have I stumped the master?
It's an old Swiss Watch brand going way back. Some say there was some Russian connection at some point. They are probably best known for the alarm models but still a minor player in the industry.
No they are long out of business. Some spell the name as Buhre. I think folks confuse them with Buren which is an old English/Swiss maker long out of business and Burett which is an outfit bought by Samsung a few years ago. They make Swiss made watches and are in business these days.
Actually Buren was connected to Hamilton and Buren is one of those brands where lately some dude bought the name and started making watches under that brand again.
I gotta bow to the master, I thought I knew a lot about watches, but as I said, bowing to the master, really good pull about an obscure brand. Just giving you your props...
Request to move this to the watch thread? ;)
Vostok Classica, my only watch.
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Oh the Russians make some wonderful things. Thanks for sharing! What is the vintage?
I bought it new from Meranom (Vostok factory outlet) so it's recent production. They only make the Classica in small runs every now and again so I jumped on it. Was thinking about the recently reintroduced Timex Marlin Handwound but the Classica seemed better quality movement. My dream watch is a Junghans Max Bill Handwound, bit more pricey though.
Timex tends to use the 21 jewel Myota mvmt which is a basic workhorse mvmt. They do use the better 24 jewel mvmt in their few better watches but they are closer to around $500. That's a lot for a Timex.
I used to have a sporty Russian Poljot. It kept good time but was just too massive for me.
The outfit that owns Timex these days is pushing them to go upscale a bit. They are coming out with some nice pieces these days. A step up would be a Bulova or even some entry level Seikos.
Seiko are nice but for me, this is where it's at.
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Watch buys is the official agent for them in the U.S. Considering what better watches cost these days Junghans is a relative bargain.
I have a quartz "radio controlled" clock from Junghans I bought probably 30 years ago or more. It still runs like a champ.
My daily is a Seiko Kinetic one of the best watches I’ve had. Bought a Rolex in the army while overseas don’t wear it much but it’s a well built watch plus the price was Really low. My TAG is my go to for dress
I’m guessing way more than I paid at the PX
My brother bought a Rolex non date sub in the Px in Nam in 1968. I think he paid about $200 for it. A couple years ago a watch store offered him $4000 cash for it and it ain't in the best of shape.